The Slytherin dorms where quiet, which made sense since it was the middle of the night and every student after eating to their hearts content had quickly retired for the night. Yet, in the dark and suprisingly warm room- of course, there is no way the wealthy parents would allow their kids to freeze under the lake- a sigh sounded through the quiet of the room.
Hades shifted for the hundreth time that night, sleep wasn't his friend that night. Laying on his side he pushed the dark green curtains of the bed aside slightly to peek at the clock that was resting on the bed side table. He squinted at the clock which told him that it was almost 4 in the morning.
He closed the curtains with a groan.
Whatever, he thought, time is relevant.
Fuck, he needed sleep.
He closed his eyes trying to fool himself into thinking that he is asleep but that did not seem to work because of the unexplained uneasiness he felt. Well, not exactly unexplainable, he knew it was because of the red headed twin storms and their friendship that lasted for almost three hours or so.
It was stupid to think about them so much, of course it wouldn't last. He knew that. But he lost himself, he was happy and he laughed so much he forgot to take in account their worn out shirts, their baggy clothes that obviously weren't originally bought for them but for someone taller, propably a sibling. No signs of wealth anywhere, he couldn't associate himself with them even if they were sorted in slytherin.
Which they would not want, who would seat in a table full of back stabbing snakes?
Assholes, mother fucking, horses ars-
There was a loud snore from one of the boys that broke the silence out of nowhere, causing Hades to fall off his bed with a loud thud, becoming a tangled mess with his covers. Struggling, he managed to push up his upper body glaring at the boy,
"Sorry, Lestrange" he mumbled sleepisly before turning to his side and falling asleep.
The dark haired boy just growled at him as he considered attacking his fellow slytherin but he decided to let it go as something dawned to him.
He was a Lestrange- rich, spoiled and entitled. He didn't know what that meant in its entirety but what he did know was the fact that he absolutely should not be bothered by irrelevant Gryffindors who were quite clearly prejudiced against him for his house while ironically calling Slytherins prejudiced.
He scoffed, shaking his head with a smile.
"What a joke..."
And everything went quite again, and stillness conquered.
Then a very loud snore shook the bedroom, again.
"For fucks" Hades grabbed the pillow from underneath the snoring boy, before attacking,
Hades walked the halls of Hogwarts like a zombie on his first day. His dark curls were all over the place, his tie was made up the wrong way and he would glare at anyone that dared talk to him this early.
Any activities before 12 should be forbidden by human rights, he scowled.
But does that mean that he would have a quite day?
No, because the universe had another obstacle for him that morning. And it had purple hair.
"Hey, Hadie, wait up!"
Hades did not respond to the name Hadie so he chose to ignore the female voice but the girl just moved to walk beside him.
"You are Hades Lestrange, right?" Asked the purple ball of energy and loudness.
"No. I'm Miguel"
The purple haired girl threw her head back with an obnoxious laugh, almost falling causing her to grab onto the dark haired boy.
As she laughed Hades kept glaring at her hand located on his arm, then at her face. Glare at her hand, then glare at her face. He continued to do that as she came down from her high, wiping away the tears that had gathered at the corners of her eyes
"You are funny, mini Lestrange "
Salazar, give me strength to not slap this bitch.
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"I'm not that small" he sounded pretty offended. Which he was. He knew he was pretty small for his age but he still had room to grow, or that's what his uncle told him one day when he was giving him the cold shoulder for calling him short.
"Aww, of course you are. You are cute and small, with really cute cheeks. Perfect for squeeezing" she 'complimented' while squeezing his cheek really hard giving him a mischievous smile.
Hades slapped her hand away, suddenly thankful that there were only a few students at the hall.
"Rude" she gasped "Is this how you treat your cousin?"
"No cousin of mine has purple hair, I can assure you" Of that he was pretty sure, purple hair just didn't fit with the dark and brooding death eaters of his family. It wasn't angsty enough.
"Well, now you do. I'm Tonks" she extended her hand for a handshake with a huge smile.
"Your first name is Tonks? Your parents don;t really like you" he furrowed his eyebrows
Another obnoxious laugh.
He didn't know, or even like, this girl, but she sure knew how to laugh.
"You are good, mini Lestrange"
"Meh"
"Dora!" a male voice cut their conversation off giving Hades the opportunity to try and bold as Tonks was looking at the boy that called her. Only for her to grab his cloak without even looking.
The red headed boy walked closer to the two with a smile ignoring the pouting and glaring Hades, held captive by Tonks.
"Dora, you need to stop skipping classes. Sprout is looking for you"
"Well, I'm sure that she can excuse me this time. It's a family reunion!" she put a hand around Hades shoulders when he tried to wiggle his cloak out of her hold "Charlie, meet my cousin. Hades, Charlie Weasley"
The dark haired boy stopped struggling, pushing his dark curls back, looking at Charlie in pure shock.
Charlie was a very handsome young man, that much was clear. With red hair reaching past his ears, with shining blue eyes that were slightly screwed as he smiled down at Hades kindly. The boy bit down on his cheek as he could feel the blood rushing through his cheeks, quite a contrast on his pale skin. He wasn't sure if he was blushing because Charlie was handsome or because his last name was Weasley, reminding him of the twins he so wanted to strangle now.
A bit of both.
Charlie moved for a handshake when Hades made a sound of realization. With his mouth agape he pointed at Tonks accusingly "Tonks, Andromeda's new surname after marrying a muggle born." he paused "So, your first name isn't Tonks"
"Nope," she said playfully "but you can just call me Tonks"
Charlie, saw an opportunity and took it "Her name is Nymphadora"
There was a glint in the cousins' eyes.
"Don't call me Nymphadora" said the girl with a dangerous glint in her eyes as her hair turned red.
Meanwhile, Hades and Charlie smirked at each other. The glint in Hades' eyes screamed mischief. And here he thought he would get bored without annoying Draco for a whole year, little did he know the next victim would offer herself over to him. Cousins are a blessing.
"Anyways!" Hades interrupted their bickering "I have to go to my potions class. See you later," he pinched Dora's cheek affectionately with a shit eatting grin "Nymphadora"
Hades turned on his heels, suddenly very jolly as he skipped away with an evil laugh.
So, Hades was set on one thing. His potions teacher is an insecure asshole who likes to bully kids, propably because he finds no real joy in his life. And to top it all off, he was the head of his house.
And to add to that, the asshole kept calling on Hades even when his hand wasn't raised. Obviously because his last name, Lestrange, meant that he knew every single answer. Which he did, but thats besides the point. The point was that Hades' anxiety had reached its peak, and he thought he would propably have a cardiac arrest,
Not to mention he was obviously biased towards his house and he didn't even hide it as he took points from the Gryffindor's mercilessly for every stupid reason he could find, usually undeservingly. The only instance that was excused was when the twins made tampered with another students potion making it explode in his face as they died of laughter. Hades almost smiled.
If the potion had exploded in Snapes face he would have laughed not caring about the consequences.
But that small prank costed 20 points from Gryffindor and Snape seperating the twins, so thats how Hades ended up trying to scoot as far away from Fred as possible. Thankfully, Fred respected his boundaries as they both worked on their seperate assignments while stealing glances at each other from time to time.
As they stole glances at each other their eyes met, and they held eye contact for a few seconds before the redness spread from their neck to their whole face and they looked away, wide eyed.
Hades cleared his throat, continuing with the potion but not before slapping Fred's hand away as he tried to sneak something into his cauldron.
"Touche" whined Fred rubbing his hand
"I thought we were the snakes that went behind people's backs?" Hades asked not even bothering to look up from his cauldron as he threw in the last incredients.
"I never-" tried Fred, touching Hades' wrist but he was quick to raise his hand
"Professor, I'm done"
The head of his house made his way towards him to check his work. As he examined his cauldron, Hades and Fred examined his face wondering what he felt since his expression continued to be sour and his eyes basically dead. The two first years exchanged looks, then looked back at their teacher in curiosity.
"Very well done, Mr. Lestrange. 10 points to Slytherin." Then his eyes fell on Fred's unfinished project "Mr. Weasley, why don't you follow Mr. Lestrange's," he trailed off as he saw that Fred still had his hand on Hades wrist, the slytherin not bothered in the slightest. Honestly, they had forgotten about it but now they noticed and quickly pulled their hands away ", example" Snape then walked away with a confused expression, not really wanting to know the details.
"Yeah, follow my example, Weasley" Hades smirked.
Fred puffed his chest , clasping his hands behind his back, sticking his nose high in the air "It's Mr. Weasley to you, young man" he shook his head disapprovingly "Kids these days"
Hades just smiled "Well, you should propably get used to following my example."
Fred's smile fell as he instead narrowed his eyes at the shorter boy whose smile widened. Snape dismissed the class
"Finally," Hades sighed "Now you can go back to your non- backstabbing Gryffindors, and I can finally be rid of your horrible excuse to a humor, yeah?" and with that he grabbed his books and walked out of the classroom.
Fred watched his back before George snapped him out of his daze and they walked out of the classroom with Lee as Fred explained to them their next plan